Seafood Stock

Stock is inexpensive to make and far superior to anything that comes from a package.  I save vegetable scraps, bones and seafood shells to make stock as I need it. I store my scraps in the freezer until I have enough to make a good batch of stock.  One made, the stock refreezes beautifully for…

Thanksgiving Butternut Squash Soup

I make this each year in honor of my Great-Uncle Tom.  He absolutely loves it in a way someone savors a memory.  I am not sure what that memory is but it is joy to serve this to him each Thanksgiving.  Soups are simple, basic food but there is magic in the nuisance.  That may…